Tim, you forgot to include your earlier praise post in your list.As my differences with the Prez simply stem from a fundamental capitalism versus socialism stance (me capitalist, he socialist), I can't find much room in there to list anything.

I am trying to develop a packet to send to former owners of property that I have purchased at auction.

I listed it with a real estate agent 10 days ago, three offers have been made, with the highest being 221,000.00, The offers have been submitted to the bank as well as my request for the banks consideration on canceling the foreclosure auction on the 19th as well as their consideration on a short sale if need be.

My first buy ever was at a city auction.

There are many pitfalls to watch out for in a tax sale and it will help you to somewhat understand the process before you attend an auction.

No conventional "go to the auction" plain vanilla type of stuff.

Just look at the number of foreclosures that happen which are sent to the courthouse steps fro auction.

Depending on the state in which the foreclosure occurred, the deed has been lost in foreclosure to the lender or whomever bought the property at the foreclosure auction, if there was one.

How to get the property before it goes to the auction?

It seems to me the banks are using agents to auction the properties to the highest bidder and disregard the contracted asking price, which to me is unethical .